New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg considers the domestic use of military-style drones "scary" but says that there is no way to stop it.

Everybody wants their privacy, but I dont know how youre going to maintain it, Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show. Its just were going into a different world, uncharted, and, like it or not, what people can do, what governments can do, is different ... you cant keep the tides from coming in.

In September a Congressional Research report stated that domestic drones may be able to bypass constitutional privacy safeguards because of their high level of sophistication.

At least 81 entities, including 17 police departments, have applied for permission to fly drones in U.S. airspace.

But the mayor seems to be referring to something more omnipresent, like having drones with ARGUS technology flying 17,500 feet above the Big Apple while transmitting high resolution images of people........

If you think they’re probably not already armed you haven’t been paying attention. If they’re not already armed, the equipment to do so probably shipped in the crate with the drone and awaits installation at a moments notice.

With federal drones looking for public corruption in local governments—where the money is. See the tip for all of us common citizens from a man in the CIA (the actual quote from Ira Hunt—not the screeching hysteria in the paraphrasing of the posted piece). It’s the state and local governments doing most of the cellphone snooping—not the feds.

With the remainder of the default process ahead, I reckon the Public Integrity Section will be a bigger deal in the future. The real zombies will be regulating bureaucrats and other pretenders receiving government incomes. They’ll be all over each other for dwindling revenues/debt (no juicy targets elsewhere).

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posted on 03/24/2013 2:36:05 PM PDT
by familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)

Everybody wants their privacy, but I dont know how youre going to maintain it, Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show. Its just were going into a different world, uncharted, and, like it or not, what people can do, what governments can do, is different ... you cant keep the tides from coming in.

What garbage.

The means to invade a person's privacy isn't the same as the right to invade a person's privacy.

Telephone's been around for decades - our leaders in the past got a judge to sign off on a wire tap. They didn't think it was their right to snoop on the private lives of citizens. Then again, our leaders weren't assh*les like Bloomberg - they NEVER used the excuse that since telephones made it 'easy' to listen in on private conversations that they could throw privacy out the window. We had better people running for office back then.

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